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The helmet is complete! I got all the final detailing and assembly done over the
last few days. Not much more to say about this project, so I'll just put up a few selected final photos.

After all this time, and having done so many ESB helmets, I still really enjoy the process of
getting a kit from its raw state to a completed bucket.

My hobby time is my "Zen meditation" time, and I just get in the zone when I'm working on a helmet.
Many people might find detail painting tedious, but I enjoy seeing how each helmet progresses, just
as (hopefully) you guys do!

It always seems that there's something new I get to do when I work on one of these kits. In this case,
Steve had sent a real MQ-1 calculator that he asked me to disassemble to use the circuit board. Until
this project I had never even seen one up close, let alone take one apart. So that was very cool!

Steve, it was a lot of fun doing this helmet. Thanks for entrusting it to me, and I hope you get
tons of enjoyment out of it! I never really asked if this is for costuming or display, but if you
wear it for trooping, I expect to see some pics of you in action!

Stellar work Eric! You really have fine tuned your skills, that every one of these helmets look as though they have come of some sort of crazy awesome production line! Fantastic as always, and I have no doubt you are one of the finest painters on these boards. Bravo my friend!

Steve , i am totally excited for you on seeing your helmet progress and quite frankly very jealous , enjoy it every moment you can
Eric you are a devil ,because you kill with each passing paintjob you complete. So now i'm sad because i don't own this helmet and this thread has pretty much ended.

Eric,
The helmet looks perfect and I cannot wait to see it together with my other boba pieces! This will definitely be the centerpiece of my costume. If anyone has a chance to have a commission done by Eric you will not regret it. Amazing progress threads as well as awesome communication.

53 Days to achieve this quality is amazing I plan to paint my helmet when it arrives hopefully it turns out as good as your work Eric but seeing as it's my first try I will be using RafalFetts templates to do it and will probably take twice as long. But it's a long time dream to have a Fett Helmet ever since I saw The Empire Strikes Back and Boba Fett hunting Han Solo.